HR20 and off air antenna

I just put the Monster 5-1000MHz between the antenna cable and HR20 so I can have one cable goes to HR20 and one goes to the TV. TV works fine with ALL channels. HR20 works with ALL channels EXCEPT PBS 8.1 and 8.2. I live in Houston, TX and I don't know why it doesn't work. It works fine if I DON'T have the splitter. Please advice. Thanks

I just put the Monster 5-1000MHz between the antenna cable and HR20 so I can have one cable goes to HR20 and one goes to the TV. TV works fine with ALL channels. HR20 works with ALL channels EXCEPT PBS 8.1 and 8.2. I live in Houston, TX and I don't know why it doesn't work. It works fine if I DON'T have the splitter. Please advice. Thanks

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Try a couple simple things:

1. Bypass the splitter and plug the antenna directly into the HR20 and see if you get your two PBS stations.

If it comes in fine with no splitter, put the splitter back in line and reverse the two leads, i.e., put the one that was previously going to the HR20 on the TV and the one that was on the TV on the HR20.

If this still doesn't work, try varying the length of the line going from the splitter to the HR20...use a double female F connector and any lose patch cables you might have laying around from other components (I always have a few laying around from other installations)

Let me know how these suggestions work out and I will have some more for you if you need more help. (I'm an OTA freak)

I'm in a similar situation, in that I think for whatever reason the split that I have setup b/w my TV and HR 20, then the internal splint, is too much signal loss for the HR 20 to handle. The TV picks up everything in the situation great though. But the problem is two fold how I look at it. One, CBS cannot be picked up by the HR 20 here in Chicago, and secondly, the HR20 doesn't do PIP, so I have to have the split going to the TV for that to be possible. Really holding out hope that OTA is addressed in some coming updates, because I honestly feel my setup should work in using the HR20 for OTA exclusively, and more importantly, reliably.

1. Bypass the splitter and plug the antenna directly into the HR20 and see if you get your two PBS stations.

If it comes in fine with no splitter, put the splitter back in line and reverse the two leads, i.e., put the one that was previously going to the HR20 on the TV and the one that was on the TV on the HR20.

If this still doesn't work, try varying the length of the line going from the splitter to the HR20...use a double female F connector and any lose patch cables you might have laying around from other components (I always have a few laying around from other installations)

Let me know how these suggestions work out and I will have some more for you if you need more help. (I'm an OTA freak)

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1. I did this. See my original post. HR20 works fine with ALL channels
2. I reversed this as well and it didn't work
3. I don't know what you by varying the length and the female F connector. I don't think the length is the problem since I use even the shorter cable when I use the splitter

Narnboy1 said:

Go into the settings menu in the HD Receiver and check the OTA antenna signal strength with the splitter on then off.

Chances are you will see a drop.

If you look on the splitter it will show #.#db, this is to show the decibel loss on each of the taps.

The cure may be a HD compatible signal amplifier.

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I did see a drop from 92-93 to 88-89. The funny thing is even WITHOUT the splitter, the 1st tunner is about 92-93 but the 2nd tunner is about 30% (What's up with that????)

When I use the splitter, the 2nd tunner is 0% and the 1st tunner is about 88-89. I don't understand how this can be happening since these is only ONE cable going in.

1. I did this. See my original post. HR20 works fine with ALL channels
2. I reversed this as well and it didn't work
3. I don't know what you by varying the length and the female F connector. I don't think the length is the problem since I use even the shorter cable when I use the splitter

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Changing "line length" will change the phase of the signal. This is for an impedance change, over the "75 Ohm", there it is more capacitive or inductive.

I did see a drop from 92-93 to 88-89. The funny thing is even WITHOUT the splitter, the 1st tinner is about 92-93 but the 2nd tinner is about 30% (What's up with that????)

When I use the splitter, the 2nd tinner is 0% and the 1st tinner is about 88-89. I don't understand how this can be happening since these is only ONE cable going in.

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The cable is split inside to the two tuners, one of them doesn't have as good a Bit Error Rate as the other.